ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 An Apopka man arrested this week stands accused of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked at least $328 million from victim investors, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Christopher Alexander Delgado, 34, was identified in the criminal complaint as the president and CEO of Goliath Ventures, formally known as Gen-Z Venture Firm. He faces charges of wire fraud and money laundering, a news release states.<\/p>\n
According to the news release from the office of Gregory W. Kehoe, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Delgado operated Goliath Ventures as a Ponzi scheme from January 2023 through January 2026. <\/p>\n
In that time, through \u201cpersonal referrals, professional marketing materials, luxury events, charitable sponsorships and some monthly payments of purported returns,\u201d Delgado is accused of getting victims to invest large amounts of money under false pretenses of monthly returns generated by cryptocurrency \u201cliquidity pools\u201d while, instead, the funds were actually used to pay phony monthly returns to earlier investors, the release states.<\/p>\n
Delgado is further accused of using the victims\u2019 money to fund \u201cextravagant business gatherings, holiday parties and luxury travel accommodations,\u201d as well the purchase of the following four residential properties:<\/p>\n
August 2024, $1.65 million property in Sanford<\/p>\n
December 2024, $1.15 million property in Kissimmee<\/p>\n
July 2025, $3.2 million property in Winter Park<\/p>\n
September 2025, $8.5 million property in Windermere<\/p>\n
Victims who have been identified by law enforcement will be notified directly of their rights pursuant to the Crime Victims\u2019 Rights Act, the release states. Those who believe they may be a victim and have not yet been notified are encouraged to email Goliathvictims@ci.irs.gov<\/a> or to visit the U.S. Justice Department\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 An Apopka man arrested this week stands accused of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10514,80200,265,28,30,29,80201,1335,24818],"class_list":{"0":"post-168591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-apopka","9":"tag-christopher-delgado","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-goliath-ventures","15":"tag-orange-county","16":"tag-ponzi-scheme"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}